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JD Power questioned 22,000 consumers two years after they bought dishwashers, ovens, washers and dryers, refrigerators, and other appliances to see how satisfied they were.

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Consumer protection is government regulation to protect the interests of consumers, for example by requiring businesses to disclose detailed information about products, particularly in areas where safety or public health is an issue, such as food.

Consumer protection is linked to the idea of consumer rights (that consumers have various rights as consumers), and to consumer organizations which help consumers make better choices in the marketplace.

Consumer protection law or consumer law is considered an area of public law that regulates private law relationships between individual consumers and the businesses that sell them goods and services.

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Stated differently, consumersurplus measures the difference between what is person is willing to pay for a commodity and the amount he/she actually is required to pay.

Last week, PIRG joined Consumer Federation of America, Free Press and Consumers Union to release a new report and announce a new campaign to preserve economic and consumer benefits of peer-to-peer file sharing.

In addition, PIRG, Consumers Union and others are also urging Congress to use the nomination of Lester Crawford as FDA commissioner to conduct oversight of the commission's flaws.

Choicepoint itself admits that at least 750 consumers have already been hit with identity theft and that 35,000 Californians and 110,000 other Americans have been or will be notified that they may have had their data compromised due to a ring of identity thieves posing as legitimate creditors or other users.

Consumer Actions Linda Sherry appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on May 17, along with other consumer advocates and credit card company executives who had been invited to testify on credit card industry practices.

In many cases, the first time consumers learn of a rate increase is when they open their statements.

Regulators had expressed concern that making small minimum paymentsespecially payments requiring only 2% of the balancewould cause consumers with high credit card rates to increase their debt because they are not even paying all the interest being charged.

This right is also interpreted as meaning that consumers should have access throughout their lives to education that will help them understand new federal and state laws and regulations, and to make informed decisions about new products, services and marketplace practices.

Consumer education is a lifelong process essential to the economic and emotional well-being of individuals and society.

The idea of consumer rights is dependent upon whether all citizens, in their actions as business persons, government employees, and as consumers, carry out certain responsibilities.

Consumer confidence took a surprising leap in June, hitting the highest level since mid-2002 as Americans gave a more upbeat assessment of the job market and the future path of the economy, a survey said Tuesday.

The New York-based Conference Board's consumer confidence index jumped to 101.8 in June from 93.1 in May. Those saying current business conditions were good rose to 25.6% from 22.2%.

"Looking ahead, consumers expect the economy to continue to grow at a healthy clip and to continue to generate additional jobs," says Lynn Franco, director of Conference Board's Consumer Research Center.

Consumer Sentinel has a restricted-access site that allows law enforcement agencies access to hundreds of thousands of complaints from consumers about identity theft and Internet cons, telemarketing scams and other frauds.

In just the last two years, law enforcers using Consumer Sentinel have brought hundreds of cases and returned millions of dollars to consumers.

Consumer Sentinel is a registered trademark of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

The Association for Conflict Resolution Consumer Section provides members with information on dealing with a wide variety of consumer disputes, including business-consumer; consumer-consumer and business-to-business.

She holds a master's degree in conflict management and has been a mediator/arbitrator for nine years, performing family mediation and consumer arbitration.

She is currently the Lead Mediator for the California County of Orange Health Care Agency and also provides contract mediation services for a state-funded nonprofit program.

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Digital consumer applications cover a very broad range of markets including home networking and information appliances.

Information Appliances - Information appliances are an emerging category of digital consumer electronics that provide the consumer with a low-cost, easy-to-use, instant-on device, providing lightweight, reliable, special-purpose access to the features and benefits of the Internet.

Spartan series family of FPGAs is a key component of many consumer products in the market today, from set-top boxes and cable modems to wireless LAN cards and HDTVs.

As announced last fall, the ConsumerPrice Index (CPI) for June 2005 is scheduled to be released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday, July 14, 2005, one day prior to the scheduled issuance of the ProducerPrice Index (PPI) for June.

Consumer Reports has identified a dozen widely-prescribed drugs and drug types that are linked to rare but potentially serious reactions that were either not identified or underestimated at the time the drugs were approved by the government.

Consumer Reports looks at the different companies offering this VoIP and compares their fees and services.

Consumer Editor Tom Vacar has come to your rescue with his annual Great American Toy Test.

The Consumer Guide is run by the Club for Protection of ConsumerInterests within the framework of Latvian National Association for Consumer Protection and is an independent Latvian consumer gateway to their rights, online assistance and accurate information to help consumers make an individual choice when purchasing goods and services.

It is the only consumerresource site of such kind on Internet in Latvia.

This Guide focuses on the issues causing concern among consumers and provides online access to useful information in order to educate consumers in the field of their rights and legislation and to provide them with practical advice to reduce the number of complaints and violations of rights.

The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) program consists of two surveys collected for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Census Bureau — the quarterly Interview survey and the Diary survey — that provide information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics.